Tauba is an Arabic word meaning âturning back to the One.â The One is Al-Tawwab, âthe Ever-Turning,â who receives our sorrow and regret, transforms it, and returns it to us as healing guidance. Together, in retreat, we will go backward and forward at onceâback to the Source of our being, and forward toward all that […]
In his teachings in The Inner Life, Hazrat Inayat Khan describes the process that leads from spiritual exile to homecoming. The inner life is attained when the body, mind, and soul become consciously conjoined. To realize this entelechy, or perfection of nature, the mystic must make common cause with the animal, vegetal, mineral, jinnic, angelic, and universal dimensions of the Earth, step by step.
In an Eastern Rose Garden turns us toward the ideal of freedom. All beings pursue freedom since freedom is an essential quality of the soul. Too often, however, one personâs purported freedom is achieved at the expense of that of someone else. A truer freedom arises from the realization of interconnectedness. In this two-part course, […]
